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Big Books & Bold Ideas with Kerri Miller
Kerri Miller and Marcheta Fornoff

Fear and misinformation spread alongside COVID-19, the new, deadly strain of coronavirus

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This illustration provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in January 2020 shows the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV). This virus was identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China.
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Over 71,000 people across the globe have been infected with COVID-19, the new, deadly strain of coronavirus.

As that number grows, so has fear, confusion and misinformation about the novel respiratory virus.

Monday morning at 9 on MPR News with Kerri Miller, two physicians helped sort through what is known about the virus and what scientists have yet to learn.


Guests:
Dr. Erica Shenoy is an infectious disease specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. William Schaffner is a professor in the division of infectious disease and preventative medicine at Vanderbilt University.

To listen to the full conversation you can use the audio player above.

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